Bouncing Breasts: A Credible Area of Scientific Research

[KnottedYet]

"Many women have long wondered whether breast movement, especially a lot of it, can affect running form"

This thought has never once crossed my mind.

I don't wonder, I *know* it affects my running form!
36DD... and when they are flopping around untethered, everything alters.

[Zen]

This gives me a mental image of a woman running in a zig-zag line.
LOOK OUT! UNCONTROLLED BOOBAGE!

[OakLeaf]

Oh, now you've put the execution scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life into my head.

I can just about see those women's shoulders flopping all over the place, and their spines weighting and unweighting. Seriously ...

[GLC1968]

Of course breast movement affects stride! I remember as a teen (a 34B teen, mind you) running down the stairs in the morning (braless) and needing to grab my breasts and hold them to my chest to keep them from throwing me off balance!

I take little to no notice of them with a bra on...but bras are a relatively modern enhancement.

I'd be curious to see if running barefoot would change the results of the above study. They've already shown that humans strike the ground harder with shoes on than they do barefoot. So if women ran without shoes, would the breast movement be decreased as the feet and legs did more to absorb the impact as they should?

[zoom-zoom]

I'd be curious to see if running barefoot would change the results of the above study. They've already shown that humans strike the ground harder with shoes on than they do barefoot. So if women ran without shoes, would the breast movement be decreased as the feet and legs did more to absorb the impact as they should?

When I run around barefoot in the house I still gotta hold the girls.

[GLC1968]

When I run around barefoot in the house I still gotta hold the girls.

Well yeah...but your girls aren't exactly typical though!

Actually, I wonder - is there an 'average' natural breast size?

[shootingstar]

Actually, I wonder - is there an 'average' natural breast size?

"Average" must have changed over the past few decades since (to me), more women look bigger in overall body shape..across all ethnicities.
I had no idea about problems on running gait form if a woman was extra-endowed. I bet women who have breast implants, yet want to stay fit and trim all-over by exercising, don't even think of these "problems" prior to surgery.

Not surprising that the world of sports medicine research this wouldn't be taken seriously by the study researchers' male colleagues. I'm just guessing, but unless guys personally know women who have had: breast cancer (scare) or who experience back pain/posture problems if woman is busty, many guys still wouldn't truly understand/be sensitive to breast-related problems at all.

[zoom-zoom]

Actually, I wonder - is there an 'average' natural breast size?

I thought I had heard 36C. Time claims the same thing, though I saw differing statistics all over and given that so many women wear the wrong size, who knows.